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Wear OS 6 will bring Facer back onto Android smartwatches; we asked Facer what to expect


Third-party watch face apps like Facer and Recreative will bypass the Play Store with the Watch Face Push API, though not all faces will work.

For "decently-sized engineering teams" who do a lot of business on Google platforms, "they'll work with you" to solve a problem so long as "everyone will benefit from it," not just one specific app or partner. (Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)For now, Eaton says, the Facer Creator tool will focus on helping developers create WFF faces so that they're ready by the time Wear OS 6 launches. When we tried an early version of Wear OS 6 at I/O, the Google engineer suggested that only some watch faces would allow for dynamic theming, which might shut out Facer and other third-party stores.

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